Piet Mondrian was an early 20th-century abstract artist and art theorist obsessed with simplicity and essence of form. Even ...

By using fractal math to calculate how the branches of trees are depicted in art, researchers can put a number on what makes for a realistic tree.

Scientists have studied trees depicted in various works of art and found they contain fractals, following relatively simple ...

He started with full-color, realistic trees in context: trees in a farmyard or a dappled lane. Gradually he removed leaves, depth, color and eventually even branching from his tree paintings.

The math that describes the branching pattern of trees in nature also holds for trees depicted in art—and may even underlie our ability to recognize artworks as depictions of trees.

The Grandin Road Pocono Pine was voted as the most realistic-looking tree by People. The tree is pre-lit and doesn’t require much fluffing, but setup does require some patience.

Even abstract paintings such as Piet Mondrian's 1912 cubist Gray Tree, which doesn’t visually show treelike colours, can be identified as trees if a realistic value for α is used, researchers say.

Scientists have studied trees depicted in various works of art and found they follow relatively simple mathematical rules also found in branching patterns in nature.

The Grandin Road Pocono Pine was voted as the most realistic-looking tree by People. The tree is pre-lit and doesn’t require much fluffing, but setup does require some patience.

Scientists have studied trees depicted in various works of art and found they follow relatively simple mathematical rules also found in branching patterns in nature.